Word: things
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...members of the Harvard Club or undergraduates there will be special cocktail hours, a luncheon, special autos to the game, and a dinner Saturday night, and the price for the whole thing will...
...organization to ask a group of unknown Freshmen to a rum punch implies that to make good with that organization Freshmen must come to the punch. And this is likely to lead men to the habit of drinking during their Freshman year, a thing that is not necessary either for any organization's success or for the success of Freshmen...
...think your description of the crash at Daytona was a commendable try. One thing that might have confused Reader de Lany was the lapse of too much reading time between the whop, crash, and smash. Now (ahem) if you had written it thus: "Suddenly, just after the big transport had drummed some 25 ft. above the highway . . ., there was a rending crack! whop! smash! as the ship slammed full tilt into a pine power pole, as the motors ripped out and fell and the rest of the plane bashed into a palmetto thicket...
...been emanating from A. F. of L. leaders for months, and John L. Lewis last week summoned his C. I. O. leaders to meet in Atlantic City next fortnight "to canvass the work of organization and consider reports upon its administration affairs and policies." That could mean only one thing: C. I. O. was ready to set itself up permanently as an undisguised A. F. of L. rival...
...Kellogg laid not the slightest imputation against Dr. Rhine's sincerity, but he implied that the "will-to-believe" can lead an honest scientist astray as well as a layman. The one thing that seemed certain last week was that, since the parapsychology question goes to the root of human mentality, it will go on attracting attention, Dr. Rhine will go on attracting adherents, and more skeptics will join Dr. Kellogg on the other side of the fence. And the mechanism of telepathy and clairvoyance, if they exist, remains to be explained in toto...